Diana Nyad

And oddly enough, the wisest thing anyone said to me was a 16-year-old girl named Suzanne.

Uh-huh.

And that was the night I was going up to that 100 meters, knowing that my chances now were slim to nil.

And she came up and grabbed me and said, listen to me.

When you finish this race, you touch that wall and you close your eyes and you close your fist.

Don't look up.

Don't look up at the scoreboard.

Don't look around the pool and see what your time was and what you finished and if you're going to the trials or not.

I want you to close your fists and close your eyes and say, I couldn't have done it a fingernail faster.

If you leave this pool tonight like that and you don't go to the Olympic trials, you'll have no regrets.

And I left that night, Julia, I put my heavy bag on the floor of the pool deck and

And I looked up at the stars.

And I mean, we're talking about 60 years ago now.

And I said to myself, no matter what you do, no matter where you go, you live every day of your life.

So you cannot live it a fingernail better.

And you'll feel just as good as you do tonight.

You didn't succeed, but you are proud and you have no regrets.

So that was the greatest, wisest advice I ever got.

Are you in touch with this chick?

All the time.